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Saturday, March 14, 2026
TopicIndian English

Topic: Indian English

A ‘tight slap’ only exists in Indian English. Everywhere else, they hit ‘hard’

Sandeep Nulkar -
In his book 'Mind it!: A Tongue-in-Cheek Look at How Indian English Can Amuse and Even Confuse', Sandeep Nulkar chronicles the uniqueness of Indian English words and phrases and the amusing reasons they came to be.

Sahitya Akademi is a failed Nehruvian project. Now it has to survive in a ‘digital’ India

Srinjoy Dey -
Sahitya Akademi doesn’t make news today except for the annual announcement of awards. And events like Assam's Kokrajhar Literary Festival are ready for competition.

Did you mock the English bad of the Mansukh Mandaviya? You won the Modi votes more

Shekhar Gupta -
Mocking new health minister Mansukh Mandaviya’s English underlines the political elitism Modi’s India has rejected.

English language gained in power in India only after the British left

Peggy Mohan -
In ‘Wanderers, Kings, Merchants’, linguist Peggy Mohan writes that until Independence, English was only a second language of a few Indians.

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Opinion

What India can learn from the US-Israel war on Iran

R Jagannathan -
Without any air force or navy worth the name, both Iran and Ukraine have held two superpowers at bay.

Communism is based on self-deluding assumptions, it can’t be realised in practice: GN Lawande

Indian govt is scrambling to manage LPG shortage while denying it exists

Economy

US strike on Iran’s key oil export island Kharg raises fears of wider supply disruption

Katharine Gemmell -
President Trump said the US had bombed military targets on Kharg Island in the Persian Gulf, but spared oil infrastructure.

Defence

Supreme Leader Mojtaba, the man Iran must keep alive & the secret force ‘tasked with it’—all about NOPO

Vaibhav Pant -
The Nirouyeh Vijeh Pasdaran Velayat, or NOPO, was the only force Ali Khamenei trusted.It was founded in 1991 and is more feared than the Revolutionary Guards.

National Interest

Peaceful power transfers followed uprisings in India’s neighbourhood. It’s a sign of mature democracies

Shekhar Gupta -
Rating democracies is a tricky business. I am only using the simple metric of who in the Indian subcontinent has had the most peaceful, stable, normal political transitions and continuity.

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